Way Quotes - Page 353

Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.

I'm deeply disturbed by the ways in which all of our cultures are demonizing the other. This is why I'm launching a new initiative, and it's to help all of us, myself included, to counteract the tendency to otherize.

From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

In the same way that plants will not grow on soil that lacks some substance indispensable to their growth, so microbes, these microscopic plants which cause infectious disease, are unable to grow in an organism which does not give them all the substances they need.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of us.

People will always be around to tell you you're no good or you're wrong or unwise to keep doing what you want to do. They're wrong. They're always wrong. Keep going.

Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a natural market for your product and no competition.

ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.

Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.

Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.

Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

And being alone is the best way to be When I'm by myself it's the best way to be When I'm all alone it's the best way to be When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye

My way has always worked. My way is what got me here.

Smile always - and live the smile!

I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way.